Threat Quotes - Page 9

• We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Believe, Organization

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• Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Al Gore's speech on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, War, Mass Destruction

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• Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

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• Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

  Jack Straw

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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• It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

  Rick Scott

  Government, Self, Law

  "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

  Steve Lacy

  Uprising, Status Quo, Originals

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• Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

  George Soros

  Believe, Enemy, Society

  "The Capitalist Threat". www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

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• American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.

  Colin S. Gray

  America, Support, Nuclear

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• We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Enemy, Battle

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.64, M.E. Sharpe

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• Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.

  George W. Bush

  Attitude, Issues, Justice

  George W. Bush's Prime Time News Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 11, 2001.

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• Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States. Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2010.

  Barack Obama

  Years, September 11, President

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• The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

  Jacques Lacan

  Passion, Psychosis, Community

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

  Ivan Illich

  Health, Medicine, Medical

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• Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Christian, Years, Humanity

  James Lovelock (2007). “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, World, Gaps

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• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  Michael Frayn

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• ...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.

  Iain Banks

  Spiritual, Challenges, Soul

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• If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, People, Leader

  "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.

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• That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commitment, Love Is, Israel

  "Pelosi: Netanyahu speech 'insulting to the intelligence of the United States'" by Lauren French, www.politico.com. March 3, 2015.

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• It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

  Mitch McConnell

  New Day, President, Notable

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• Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Survival, Democracy, Littles

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• Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. ... Ridge's announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Home, Orange

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• We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Hard Times, Want

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